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      Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in Masterpiece
    • SCOTUS’s Incoherent <em>Masterpiece Cakeshop</em> Decision
      SCOTUS’s Incoherent Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision
    • SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree
      SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree
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      SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree
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      Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair
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      Indiana Republicans Are Debating Gay Marriage… Amongst Themselves
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      Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in Masterpiece
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      How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion
    • Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are “Serious Parody,” Forcing us to Redefine Nuns
      Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are “Serious Parody,” Forcing us to Redefine Nuns
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      Fear, Nostalgia and Power Drove Evangelicals to Trump: Interview with Evangelical Scholar John Fea
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      Earth to Planet Catholic: Francis Papacy is no Picnic
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Andrew Aghapour

Andrew Aghapour is a PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill and co-producer of The Cubit.

(A)theologies, Front Page, New Books, The CubitAugust 9, 2016

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Front Page, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Science, The CubitMay 5, 2016

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, New Books, Science, The CubitMarch 7, 2016

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

Chimpanzees believe in God. This news, widely reported last week, is only a slight exaggeration….

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Front Page, New Books, Science, The CubitJanuary 29, 2016

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

For quite some time now, there’s been an irritating trend in the social sciences. In every generation, someone new…

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Front Page, Science, The CubitJanuary 6, 2016

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

I have a theory: New Year’s resolutions have nothing to do with the turn of…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Front Page, Science, Stories, The CubitDecember 30, 2015

Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015

By Andrew Aghapour

This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage…

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Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?
OMFG, Science, The CubitDecember 11, 2015

Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?

By Andrew Aghapour

An illustrated guide.

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Front Page, Science, The CubitNovember 9, 2015

Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…

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(A)theologies, Andrew Aghapour, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Front Page, Politics/Law, Science, Sexuality/Gender, Stories, The CubitOctober 21, 2015

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican…

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Andrew Aghapour, Culture, New Books, OMFG, RD Blog, Science, The CubitOctober 7, 2015

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars…

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